Ginsberg, whose recent passing, for 'First thought, best thought'
(do they really want to know my FIRST thought?), the
sudden insight, germ of an electric idea uncovered back in
Whitman and Blake, the invocation to 'Be here now' (Ram Dass) or
'How soon is now?' (a Morrissey 'pop' song), for remarkable synergies
on the frontier with the Beats, American Buddhism,
the startling impulse in jazz and popular music,
surrealism, maybe (the strangely hallucinogenic if not cryptic
Burroughs correspondence).
Which I 'heard' a few days back on Teletext, as if someone else, some
place else (and what place could that be?). Controversial to the
end, the ideas, the words carry...
Clark Allison
Aberdeen
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